Connect Streamline to your device
Arm provides a Python script, gator_me.py that installs a daemon, gatord, on your device. Streamline uses this daemon to connect to unrooted Android devices and collect data. Follow these steps to run the script so that Streamline can communicate with your device.
- On your host machine, navigate to the Streamline installation directory,
<install_dir>/streamline/gator/where you will find thegator_me.pyscript. - Run the
gator_me.pyscript with the--daemonoption, to supply the path to thegatordbinary that will be installed on the device. For example:python3 gator_me.py --daemon ../bin/arm64/gatord
There are two versions of thegatord, for 32-bit or 64-bit architectures, located in the following directories:<install_dir>/streamline/bin/arm64/for Armv8 64-bit architectures.<install_dir>/streamline/bin/arm/for 32-bit architectures.
- The script will return a numbered list of the Android package names for the debuggable applications that are installed on your device. Enter the number of the package you want to profile.
Alternatively, if you know the Android package name of the app you want to profile you can specify it when running the script, using the
--packageoption.python3 gator_me.py --package com.mycompany.myapp --daemon ../bin/arm64/gatord
IMPORTANT: When you've finished capturing data from this device, switch back to the terminal running the
gator_me.pyscript and press any key to terminate it. The script kills all processes that it started and removesgatordfrom the target. - Launch Streamline:
- On Windows, from the Start menu, navigate to the Arm Mobile Studio folder, and select the Streamline shortcut.
- On macOS, go to the
<install_dir>/streamlinefolder, and double-click theStreamline.appfile. - On Linux, go to the
<install_dir>/streamlinefolder, and run theStreamlinefile:
cd <install_dir>/streamline
./Streamline
- Use the Start tab in Streamline to select your device. Select Or, choose an existing target, then select your device from the list.

- Before starting the capture, choose Configure Counters to choose a counter template.